1. Eric Bischoff Talks About The First Set of Cruiserweights He Signed & What He Wanted From Them
During a recent interview with Sports Illustrated’s Extra Mustard blog, Eric Bischoff discussed the Cruiserweight Classic and the first set of Cruiserweights he signed and what he wanted from them. Below is what he said:
“When I hired the first group of cruiserweights–which consisted of Dean Malenko, Chris Jericho and Eddie Guerrero–I sat them down in my office and I was very clear to them. I said to them, almost verbatim, ‘You need to be my human car crashes at 9pm.’
At that time, I had a three hour show from 8pm-11pm. It was easy to kick off the show hot, because we weren’t against the competition at that time, but to sustain a three hour show without a lot of diversity in our presentation was a real challenge. That’s why I wanted my cruiserweights to be live on television at exactly nine o’clock. We formatted our shows so that, at nine o’clock, we were in the heat of hard-hitting, fast-paced cruiserweight action, and it was so different from the WWE that it worked.”
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